Lifting up and putting down.

[DaveBrigg]

There are, of course, several examples of open air museums moving buildings to their collection. The Weald and Downland have done this more than once.

 

[Nemesis]

They have - but the buildings lose of course all their historic context and it really is a last resort.

 

[MdB]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/bradford/6651363.stm

I'm sure they have a really good reason for doing this (apart from making all the money from selling the land)

 

[Nemesis]

It will have been argued that there is wider community benefit.

I'm not convinced but...

 

[shelli]

Several decades ago, Ballingdon Hall on Ballingdon Hill in Sudbury, Suffolk, was moved on wheels up the hill - lock, stock and wotsits - because an industrial estate was being built close to it.

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Looks like a rather grand shepherds hut!

 

[Penners]

The Landmark Trust have a property in the south-west (Devon or Cornwall - can't remember which) which is partly made up of an old wheeled chapel. It used to be dragged around from parish to parish by horsepower.

The wheels have now been removed, and it's been married up to a cottage to make a holiday property.

 

[Gareth Hughes]

The Landmark Trust have a property in the south-west (Devon or Cornwall - can't remember which) which is partly made up of an old wheeled chapel. It used to be dragged around from parish to parish by horsepower.

The wheels have now been removed, and it's been married up to a cottage to make a holiday property.

The Landmark Trust have also got this:

http://www.landmarktrust.org.uk/future_landmarks/clavell.htm

which I don't think is actually there, at the moment...

 

[Penners]

I do wonder why, if they're moving it anyway, they aren't moving it more than 25 metres. Wouldn't 250 have made it safer for longer?

 

[Gareth Hughes]

I do wonder why, if they're moving it anyway, they aren't moving it more than 25 metres. Wouldn't 250 have made it safer for longer?

I thought the same (and also that lighthouse on top of Beachy Head http://www.timetravel-britain.com/06/Oct/lighthouse.shtml where the erosion has been faster than anticipated). I think it's a compromise between total safety (move it to Northampton) and still having the spectacular clifftop setting.

 

[alice]

I've seen lighthouses in Florida and New Jersey that have been moved well inland to save them. They do seem a bit forlorn and odd when they're not right on the seafront.

alice

 

[Penners]

I've seen lighthouses in Florida....They do seem a bit forlorn

I sympathise - I was a bit forlorn on my only trip top Florida. I won't be hurrying back....

 

[Penners]

move it to Northampton

So should all of us East Anglians be heading Northamptonwards, to be on the safe side?

 

[MdB]

Came across this today:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/south_east/7043147.stm
(C13 Church moved nr Cardiff)

 

[Penners]

I've removed this post because I was repeating myself. Old age is a dreadful thing.